I had a job interview today. The first in fourteen years. I think I didn't leave the best impression
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It's a job for a social worker for a special project class at a professional school/training school.
The job description in the paper put the emphasis on the organizational stuff: keep/make contact to parents, pupils, teachers and potential employers, bring them together, documentation, computer skills needed, etc. They even said they were looking for someone who pulls the strings, who organizes things.
Well, so far so good. Of course in the job interview I put the emphasis on my skills/my experiences of that kind of stuff.
At the very end, one of the interviewers said the main problem is keeping the pupils from quitting school. They need someone who works directly and closely with the kids (teenagers in this case), motivates them and intervenes when problems arise.
Well duh - I can do that! That's what I mainly did when I was working on my former job. Ack! I would have put a totally different emphasis on my presentation had I known this.
Oh well, check one for experience.